Senate Bill S1681

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes dispensing audiologists, employed by an otolaryngologist who has conducted an evaluation for hearing loss, to dispense hearing aids for a profit

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1681 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §802, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7670
2011-2012: S5164
2013-2014: S3055
2017-2018: S2583

2015-S1681 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes dispensing audiologists, employed by a otolaryngologist who has conducted an evaluation for hearing loss, to dispense hearing aids for a profit; requires certain disclosures.

2015-S1681 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1681 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1681

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, AVELLA, LATIMER, MARCHIONE -- read twice and
  ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
  Consumer Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  permitting
  certain audiologists to dispense hearing aids for a profit

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 802 of the general business law, as added by  chap-
ter 599 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as designated and subdivision
2  as  added  by  chapter 301 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
follows:
  S 802. Special provisions; not-for-profit sales. 1.   [No]  EXCEPT  AS
PROVIDED  IN  SUBDIVISION  THREE OF THIS SECTION, NO otolaryngologist or
other licensed physician who has conducted a medical evaluation of hear-
ing loss shall engage in the business of dispensing hearing aids  for  a
profit.   No  otolaryngologist  or  other  licensed  physician  who  has
dispensed a hearing aid shall refuse  or  fail  to  perform  repairs  or
service on any hearing aid that they have dispensed.
  2.  Every  licensed physician who engages in the dispensing of hearing
aids in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be required
to comply with sections seven hundred ninety-one, seven hundred  ninety-
eight and eight hundred three of this article, in addition to compliance
with this section.
  3. AN AUDIOLOGIST LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE OF THE
EDUCATION  LAW  WHO  IS  A  HEARING  AID DISPENSER AND IS EMPLOYED BY AN
OTOLARYNGOLOGIST WHO HAS CONDUCTED A MEDICAL EVALUATION OF HEARING LOSS,
MAY DISPENSE HEARING AIDS FOR PROFIT PROVIDED THAT THE  OTOLARYNGOLOGIST
WHO  HAS  CONDUCTED A MEDICAL EVALUATION OF HEARING LOSS PROVIDES TO THE
PATIENT A LIST CONTAINING THE NAME AND OFFICE LOCATION OF  FIVE  HEARING
AID  DISPENSERS  WITH A PLACE OF BUSINESS LOCATED WITHIN THE SAME COUNTY
IN WHICH THE OTOLARYNGOLOGIST'S OFFICE IS LOCATED, AND A WRITTEN  STATE-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06268-01-5

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